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Jun 12, 2014Craft Spells’ previous work wasn’t bad, but Nausea is such an unexpected metamorphosis that Vallesteros could just as well have changed the band name. Even in a crowded dreampop field, this is music to bask in, whatever you call it.
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Jun 10, 2014It is perfect for lazy summer afternoons, cozy winter nights, or anytime you might want some music that's blissfully peaceful and sweet, but never boring.
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Jun 10, 2014Nausea is the perfect lazy summer album with a hidden depth that slowly unfolds to reveal a work of sincere beauty.
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UncutAug 11, 2014It's the gently chiming guitars, summery synth lines and Vallesteros' Beach Boy melodies that dominate. [Sep 2014, p.71]
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Jun 12, 2014Where Craft Spells' previous release felt a bit lackadaisical, the more self-aware Nausea, with its themes of growth echoed in its synth crescendos, sports ambition.
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Jun 11, 2014Nausea represents a smoother transition into maturity than you might expect from a songwriter who once seemed like a potentially talented California emo kid nursing a dangerously narrow Morrissey fixation.
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Jun 10, 2014The evolution is slight but impressive, and worth taking note of.
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Jun 10, 2014This is another lo-fi gem, and most encouraging is the fact that there’s apparently plenty more he can wring out of this particular sonic platform; he might not need slick studio production to genuinely capitalise on his potential.
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Jun 20, 2014The production on Nausea remains consistently strong, even as songs progress, fade, and expand within themselves.
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Aug 4, 2014The messy trip-hop of 'If I Could' and screeching synth line of 'First Snow' mean Nausea lacks consistency, but it's a clever and rewarding record.
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Jun 10, 2014While nearly every track on Nausea finds Vallesteros trying to grapple with these issues [feeling displaced and connected at the same time], he rarely wrenches out any insight or personal detail.
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Jun 10, 2014Despite the deluxe treatments, the tracks on Nausea tend to blend into a blur, and their richness sometimes seems at odds with Vallesteros’s maudlin charms. Fans of “Labor” may be left wondering if beige is really a step up from gray.